#13: Startup, Merger, and Mental Health Advice from CEO of Headspace Health, Russ Glass

Decoding Healthcare Innovation

What you’ll get out of this episode

• Why Headspace and Ginger merged into Headspace Health (and how that partnership came to be)
• Why Russ ventured into the digital health space after success in more traditional tech startups like Bizo (acquired by LinkedIn)
• What Headspace Health is doing to improve adolescent mental health—and how it impacts society
• Why Headspace Health decided to target the employer market before payers and direct-to-consumer models—and how those markets are expanding
• What unexpected benefits you’ll get from a mentor if you’re open to it (and other founder advice!)

If you’re a startup founder, investor, mental health advocate, or want to learn more about selling to employers, you won’t want to miss this conversation.

Quotables

“As a society, we have to start thinking about our brain health much earlier” @glassruss of @headspace on Ep13 of @DecodingHealth1 w/ @NixonGwiltLaw #https://sliceofhealthcare.com/category/decoding-healthcare-innovation/

“one of those mind-meld moments: clear cultural and mission alignment, fit between their wish/our need” @glassruss on @carebyginger @headspace merger on @DecodingHealth1 @NixonGwiltLaw #https://sliceofhealthcare.com/category/decoding-healthcare-innovation/

“Often I’m thinking about a decision & it seems hard until I talk to a mentor. They make it so obvious.” @glassruss #startupadvice Ep13 of @DecodingHealth1 w/ @NixonGwiltLaw https://sliceofhealthcare.com/category/decoding-healthcare-innovation/

Recommended Resources

• Learn more about the recent $3B Ginger/HeadSpace merger here
• Follow Russ on Linkedin
• Ginger Partners with AmeriHealth Caritas District of Columbia to Bring Free On-Demand Mental Healthcare to 110,000 Medicaid Plan Enrollees
• [Video] 4X Growth in 5 Years: Why Investment in Mental and Behavioral Health is Exploding
• Episode 11: Obvious Truths our Healthcare Policy Still Doesn’t Support: Mental Health as Standard Healthcare

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